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This time we profile guitarist Big Joe Williams and harmonica ace John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson, who last recorded together, this week in 1947.
- Added: Apr 27, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Robert Johnson, who made his recording debut the week of Thanksgiving, 1936.
- Added: Apr 20, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Big Maceo, who recorded his “magnum opus” — the barnstorming instrumental “Chicago Breakdown” — this week in 1945.
- Added: Apr 11, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile the Memphis Jug Band, whose 1929 recording, “K.C. Moan,” was one of the 84 selections on the “Anthology of American Folk Music.”
- Added: Apr 09, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Sid Hemphill, who was recorded by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress, this week in 1942.
- Added: Mar 31, 2018
- Length: 03:29
One of the world's most successful music producers got his start as a jazz trumpeter, arranger, and bandleader. We'll hear recordings he made in th...
- Added: Mar 11, 2018
- Length: 59:01
As the black-pride movement gained momentum in the late 1960s and early 1970s, an increasing number of jazz artists began to incorporate the messag...
- Added: Feb 16, 2018
- Length: 58:57
Hour One of a lively ride through the story of the soul star’s all-too-brief career but long-enduring legacy. We’ll hear from other musicians, musi...
Bought by KFSK, WPVM 103.7, KMUW, KUHF, WRVO Public Media and more
- Added: Jan 28, 2018
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 18
Executive Director of the Delta Blues Museum Shelley Ritter keeps the blues alive and honors its history.
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Jan 19, 2018
- Length: 22:42
- Purchases: 1
In the second half of our conversation with former California Poet Laureate Al Young, he shares more from his book SOMETHING ABOUT THE BLUES: AN UN...
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
It's Sonny Rollins 87th birthday and he sat down with the NEA's Josephine Reed to talk about his life in music.
- Added: Aug 31, 2017
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
A program about saxophonist Sonny Rollins' early-1960s return to the jazz scene after a self-imposed sabbatical.
- Added: Aug 10, 2017
- Length: 59:00
Nique Love Rhodes
We have a social entrepreneur of a different kind, she is a rapper! You will have an opportunity to learn how the social and bus...
- Added: Jul 06, 2017
- Length: 39:03
A program about Louis Armstrong’s mid-career years, in which he led the small-group All-Stars, scored chart hits with pop ballads, and became a Col...
- Added: Jul 06, 2017
- Length: 59:00
An hour-long program of classic jazz, presenting the second of a two-part program exploring the life and music of Thelonious Monk, with special gue...
Bought by KMUW, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, and KGLT
- Added: Jun 29, 2017
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 3
An hourlong program of classic jazz, presenting the first of a two-part program exploring the life and music of Thelonious Monk, with special guest...
Bought by KMUW, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, and KGLT
- Added: Jun 29, 2017
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 3
An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring musical tributes to the so-called “Black Metropolis,” including Duke Ellington’s “Harlem,” Roy Eldr...
Bought by Radio New Zealand, 90.5 WSNC, WUCF, and WCPN
- Added: Jun 29, 2017
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 4
An hourlong program of classic jazz, exploring a collection of influential jazz material know as "The Birth of the Cool" recorded by a circle of mu...
Bought by Radio New Zealand
- Added: Jun 29, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
A look at one of hardbop's greatest front lines: Trumpeter Lee Morgan and saxophonist Wayne Shorter were two of the leading lights of the 1960s har...
- Added: May 23, 2017
- Length: 58:59
A salute to hardbop pianist Freddie Redd, featuring recordings he made with artists such as Jackie McLean and Tina Brooks.
- Added: May 23, 2017
- Length: 59:05
Jazz scholar and Lester Young box-set annotator Loren Schoenberg joins us as we look at the music the saxophonist made in the years following a dif...
- Added: Apr 20, 2017
- Length: 59:00
Singer and 2017 NEA Jazz Master continues to go her own way.
- Added: Apr 05, 2017
- Length: 28:28
- Purchases: 4
Davu Seru is the current Studio Z composer in Residence. Among his goals is combining west African-based traditions such as drumming and the blues...
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 05:00
One of the best jazz organists, ever…and one of the most sampled jazz musicians.
Bought by Prairie Public, Harford Community Radio, Prairie Public, KPIP-LP, WTJU and more
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 29:28
- Purchases: 7
Meet some of the greatest back-up singers! It may be only Twenty Feet from Stardom but director Morgan Neville shows us just how long that walk can...
- Added: Jan 26, 2017
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 3
